3 million trees planned for 2007.AMERICAN FORESTS' Global ReLeaf Forests program will plant 3 million trees this year in projects aimed at: replanting forests killed by wildfire, bugs, and drought; restoring unique habitats found only in Illinois, Maryland, and Texas; and improving habitat for animals and birds ranging from endangered red-cockaded woodpecker and bull trout to bald eagles and orangutans. Global ReLeaf, which restores native forests for $1 a tree, has since 1988 planted 27 million trees in projects across the U.S. and around the world. Individuals and businesses can contribute to the Global ReLeaf program through AMERICAN FORESTS's website, www.americanforests.org or by calling 800/368-5748. Some of AMERICAN FORESTS' Global ReLeaf projects for 2007 are: [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] * In California's Tahoe National Forest Tahoe National Forest is a U.S. National Forest located in California around Lake Tahoe. External link
* More than 550,000 native longleaf pines will restore a wildfire-damaged area, thanks to a partnership with National Forests of Florida. The endangered red-cockaded woodpecker will benefit. * For sheer biological diversity and cultural importance, The Nature Conservancy's Emiquon Preserve's pre-European settlement landscape of backwater lakes, wetlands, and forests is virtually unmatched in the Midwest. A partnership between The Nature Conservancy of Illinois and AMERICAN FORESTS will begin to restore this Illinois River floodplain floodplain, level land along the course of a river formed by the deposition of sediment during periodic floods. Floodplains contain such features as levees, backswamps, delta plains, and oxbow lakes. site by planting 160,000 bottomland hardwoods and reintroducing more than 10 different hardwood species once found there. * Hand-planting 21 acres of Superior National Forest in Minnesota, site of a 1999 blowdown, will restore an area so severely damaged it had been classified as non-forest. * A parcel of formerly undeveloped land in Nevada will blossom into Elko Peace Park with paths, an arboretum arboretum: see botanical garden. arboretum Place where trees, shrubs, and sometimes herbaceous plants are cultivated for scientific and educational purposes. An arboretum may be a collection in its own right or a part of a botanical garden. of trees and shrubs, a labyrinth, a peace wheel to promote world peace, a medicine circle, an information kiosk, and restrooms. West Virginia's Canaan Valley is home to a globally rare natural community of conifer-hardwood seepage swamp forest. Habitat will be provided for at-risk species like the Cheat Mountain salamander The Cheat Mountain salamander (Plethodon nettingi ) is a small, endangered woodland salamander found only on Cheat Mountain, and a few nearby mountains, in the eastern highlands of West Virginia. , found only in West Virginia; the West Virginia northern flying squirrel Noun 1. northern flying squirrel - large flying squirrel; chiefly of Canada Glaucomys sabrinus American flying squirrel - New World flying squirrels ; the northern goshawk goshawk: see hawk. goshawk Any of the more powerful accipiters (hawks in the genus Accipiter), primarily short-winged, forest-dwelling bird catchers. Best known is the northern goshawk, which reaches about 2 ft (60 cm) in length with a 4.3-ft (1. ; and the saw-whet owl. Internationally, AMERICAN FORESTS will support plantings in central Honduras that will reforest re·for·est tr.v. re·for·est·ed, re·for·est·ing, re·for·ests To replant (an area) with forest cover. re uplands and mountain areas. Plantings in Malaysia will help restore degraded forest within Supu Reserve, habitat for endangered species such as the orangutan orangutan (ōrăng`  tăn), an ape, Pongo pygmaeus, found in swampy coastal forests of Borneo and Sumatra. , storms stork, Borneon
bristlehead, and rare endemic species like the proboscis monkey and
Borneon gibbon gibbon, small ape, genus Hyloblates, found in the forests of SE Asia. The gibbons, including the siamang, are known as the small, or lesser, apes; they are the most highly adapted of the apes to arboreal life. .
AMERICAN FORESTS is supporting two projects in Mexico. The first will reforest over-wintering habitat for Monarch butterflies. The second will restore forest--and the environmental benefits--that originally covered Itza-Popo National Park in central Mexico. |
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